<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<body style="height: 100%;margin: 0;padding: 0;width:
100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;background-color: #FAFAFA;">
<br>
<div class="moz-forward-container">
<!-- NAME: 1 COLUMN -->
<!--[if gte mso 15]>
<xml>
<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
<o:AllowPNG/>
<o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch>
</o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
</xml>
<![endif]-->
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,
initial-scale=1">
<title>In a World of Great Disorder and Extravagant Lies, We Look
for Compassion: The Nineteenth Newsletter (2022)</title>
<style type="text/css">p{
margin:10px 0;
padding:0;
}table{
border-collapse:collapse;
}h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6{
display:block;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}img,a img{
border:0;
height:auto;
outline:none;
text-decoration:none;
}body,#bodyTable,#bodyCell{
height:100%;
margin:0;
padding:0;
width:100%;
}.mcnPreviewText{
display:none !important;
}#outlook a{
padding:0;
}img{
-ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic;
}table{
mso-table-lspace:0pt;
mso-table-rspace:0pt;
}.ReadMsgBody{
width:100%;
}.ExternalClass{
width:100%;
}p,a,li,td,blockquote{
mso-line-height-rule:exactly;
}a[href^=tel],a[href^=sms]{
color:inherit;
cursor:default;
text-decoration:none;
}p,a,li,td,body,table,blockquote{
-ms-text-size-adjust:100%;
-webkit-text-size-adjust:100%;
}.ExternalClass,.ExternalClass p,.ExternalClass td,.ExternalClass div,.ExternalClass span,.ExternalClass font{
line-height:100%;
}a[x-apple-data-detectors]{
color:inherit !important;
text-decoration:none !important;
font-size:inherit !important;
font-family:inherit !important;
font-weight:inherit !important;
line-height:inherit !important;
}#bodyCell{
padding:10px;
}.templateContainer{
max-width:600px !important;
}a.mcnButton{
display:block;
}.mcnImage,.mcnRetinaImage{
vertical-align:bottom;
}.mcnTextContent{
word-break:break-word;
}.mcnTextContent img{
height:auto !important;
}.mcnDividerBlock{
table-layout:fixed !important;
}body,#bodyTable{
background-color:#FAFAFA;
}#bodyCell{
border-top:0;
}.templateContainer{
border:0;
}h1{
color:#202020;
font-family:Helvetica;
font-size:26px;
font-style:normal;
font-weight:bold;
line-height:125%;
letter-spacing:normal;
text-align:left;
}h2{
color:#202020;
font-family:Helvetica;
font-size:22px;
font-style:normal;
font-weight:bold;
line-height:125%;
letter-spacing:normal;
text-align:left;
}h3{
color:#202020;
font-family:Helvetica;
font-size:20px;
font-style:normal;
font-weight:bold;
line-height:125%;
letter-spacing:normal;
text-align:left;
}h4{
color:#202020;
font-family:Helvetica;
font-size:18px;
font-style:normal;
font-weight:bold;
line-height:125%;
letter-spacing:normal;
text-align:left;
}#templatePreheader{
background-color:#FAFAFA;
background-image:none;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:center;
background-size:cover;
border-top:0;
border-bottom:0;
padding-top:9px;
padding-bottom:9px;
}#templatePreheader .mcnTextContent,#templatePreheader .mcnTextContent p{
color:#656565;
font-family:Helvetica;
font-size:12px;
line-height:150%;
text-align:left;
}#templatePreheader .mcnTextContent a,#templatePreheader .mcnTextContent p a{
color:#656565;
font-weight:normal;
text-decoration:underline;
}#templateHeader{
background-color:#FFFFFF;
background-image:none;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:center;
background-size:cover;
border-top:0;
border-bottom:0;
padding-top:9px;
padding-bottom:0;
}#templateHeader .mcnTextContent,#templateHeader .mcnTextContent p{
color:#202020;
font-family:Helvetica;
font-size:16px;
line-height:150%;
text-align:left;
}#templateHeader .mcnTextContent a,#templateHeader .mcnTextContent p a{
color:#007C89;
font-weight:normal;
text-decoration:underline;
}#templateBody{
background-color:#FFFFFF;
background-image:none;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:center;
background-size:cover;
border-top:0;
border-bottom:2px solid #EAEAEA;
padding-top:0;
padding-bottom:9px;
}#templateBody .mcnTextContent,#templateBody .mcnTextContent p{
color:#202020;
font-family:Helvetica;
font-size:16px;
line-height:150%;
text-align:left;
}#templateBody .mcnTextContent a,#templateBody .mcnTextContent p a{
color:#007C89;
font-weight:normal;
text-decoration:underline;
}#templateFooter{
background-color:#FAFAFA;
background-image:none;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:center;
background-size:cover;
border-top:0;
border-bottom:0;
padding-top:9px;
padding-bottom:9px;
}#templateFooter .mcnTextContent,#templateFooter .mcnTextContent p{
color:#656565;
font-family:Helvetica;
font-size:12px;
line-height:150%;
text-align:center;
}#templateFooter .mcnTextContent a,#templateFooter .mcnTextContent p a{
color:#656565;
font-weight:normal;
text-decoration:underline;
}</style><!--[if !mso]><!-->
<link
href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:400,400i,700,700i"
rel="stylesheet">
<!--<![endif]-->
<!--
-->
<center>
<table id="bodyTable" style="border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;height: 100%;margin: 0;padding: 0;width:
100%;background-color: #FAFAFA;" width="100%" height="100%"
cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td id="bodyCell" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;height: 100%;margin:
0;padding: 10px;width: 100%;border-top: 0;" valign="top"
align="center">
<!-- BEGIN TEMPLATE // -->
<!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>
<table align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="600" style="width:600px;">
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="top" width="600" style="width:600px;">
<![endif]-->
<table class="templateContainer" style="border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;border:
0;max-width: 600px !important;" width="100%"
cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td id="templatePreheader" style="background:
#FAFAFA none no-repeat
center/cover;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;background-color: #FAFAFA;background-image:
none;background-repeat:
no-repeat;background-position:
center;background-size: cover;border-top:
0;border-bottom: 0;padding-top:
9px;padding-bottom: 9px;" valign="top">
<table class="mcnTextBlock" style="min-width:
100%;border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace:
0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
border="0">
<tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter">
<tr>
<td class="mcnTextBlockInner"
style="padding-top:
9px;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
valign="top">
<!--[if mso]>
<table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100%;">
<tr>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if mso]>
<td valign="top" width="600" style="width:600px;">
<![endif]-->
<table style="max-width: 100%;min-width:
100%;border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace:
0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
class="mcnTextContentContainer"
width="100%" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" border="0"
align="left">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="mcnTextContent"
style="padding: 0px 18px
9px;text-align:
center;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;word-break:
break-word;color:
#656565;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
12px;line-height: 150%;"
valign="top"> <span
style="font-family:helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif"><a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=f05675b666&e=d206d0a40d"
target="_blank"
style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#656565;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:#ba2025">View
this email in your browser</span></a></span>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<!--[if mso]>
</td>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if mso]>
</tr>
</table>
<![endif]--> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id="templateHeader" style="background: #FFFFFF
none no-repeat
center/cover;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;background-color: #FFFFFF;background-image:
none;background-repeat:
no-repeat;background-position:
center;background-size: cover;border-top:
0;border-bottom: 0;padding-top:
9px;padding-bottom: 0;" valign="top">
<table class="mcnTextBlock" style="min-width:
100%;border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace:
0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
border="0">
<tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter">
<tr>
<td class="mcnTextBlockInner"
style="padding-top:
9px;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
valign="top">
<!--[if mso]>
<table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100%;">
<tr>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if mso]>
<td valign="top" width="NaN" style="width:NaNpx;">
<![endif]-->
<table style="max-width: 100%;min-width:
100%;border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace:
0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
class="mcnTextContentContainer"
width="100%" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" border="0"
align="left">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="mcnTextContent"
style="padding-top:
0;padding-right:
18px;padding-bottom:
9px;padding-left:
18px;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;word-break:
break-word;color:
#202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"
valign="top"> <strong><span
style="font-size:20px"><span
style="color:#ba2025"><span
style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">In a
World of Great Disorder
and Extravagant Lies, We
Look for Compassion: The
Nineteenth Newsletter
(2022)</span></span></span></strong>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<!--[if mso]>
</td>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if mso]>
</tr>
</table>
<![endif]--> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id="templateBody" style="background: #FFFFFF
none no-repeat
center/cover;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;background-color: #FFFFFF;background-image:
none;background-repeat:
no-repeat;background-position:
center;background-size: cover;border-top:
0;border-bottom: 2px solid #EAEAEA;padding-top:
0;padding-bottom: 9px;" valign="top">
<table class="mcnTextBlock" style="min-width:
100%;border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace:
0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
border="0">
<tbody class="mcnTextBlockOuter">
<tr>
<td class="mcnTextBlockInner"
style="padding-top:
9px;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
valign="top">
<!--[if mso]>
<table align="left" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100%;">
<tr>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if mso]>
<td valign="top" width="NaN" style="width:NaNpx;">
<![endif]-->
<table style="max-width: 100%;min-width:
100%;border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace:
0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
class="mcnTextContentContainer"
width="100%" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" border="0"
align="left">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="mcnTextContent"
style="padding: 0px 18px
9px;font-family:
"Lato",
"Helvetica Neue",
Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;word-break:
break-word;color:
#202020;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"
valign="top"> <br>
<span
style="font-family:lato,helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">
<div id="attachment_59404"
class="wp-caption
aligncenter"><img
aria-describedby="caption-attachment-59404"
loading="lazy"
class="wp-image-59404
size-full img-responsive
mcRssImage"
src="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Francisca-Lita-Saez-Spain-An-Unequal-Fight-2020..jpg"
alt="Francisca Lita Sáez
(Spain), An Unequal Fight,
2020."
srcset="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Francisca-Lita-Saez-Spain-An-Unequal-Fight-2020..jpg
950w,
https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Francisca-Lita-Saez-Spain-An-Unequal-Fight-2020.-300x217.jpg
300w,
https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Francisca-Lita-Saez-Spain-An-Unequal-Fight-2020.-768x555.jpg
768w" sizes="(max-width:
950px) 100vw, 950px"
style="max-width:
100%;width:
100%;padding-bottom:
0;display:
inline;vertical-align:
bottom;border: 0;height:
auto;outline:
none;text-decoration:
none;-ms-interpolation-mode:
bicubic;"
moz-do-not-send="true"
width="950" border="0">
<p
id="caption-attachment-59404"
class="wp-caption-text"
style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"><span
style="color: #ba2025;">Francisca
Lita Sáez (Spain), <i>An
Unequal Fight</i>,
2020.</span></p>
</div>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">Dear
friends,</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">Greetings
from the desk of <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=edd4508186&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Tricontinental:
Institute for Social
Research</a>.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">These
are deeply upsetting times.
The COVID-19 global pandemic
had the potential to bring
people together, to
strengthen global
institutions such as the
World Health Organisation
(WHO), and to galvanise new
faith in public action. Our
vast social wealth could
have been pledged to improve
public health systems,
including both the
surveillance of outbreaks of
illness and the development
of medical systems to treat
people during these
outbreaks. Not so.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">Studies
by the WHO have <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=6e5ee37c95&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">shown</a>
us that health care spending
by governments in poorer
nations has been relatively
flat during the pandemic,
while out-of-pocket private
expenditure on health care
continues to rise. Since the
pandemic was <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=01e0922fb4&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">declared</a>
in March 2020, many
governments have responded
with exceptional budget
allocations; however, across
the board from richer to the
poorer nations, the health
sector received only ‘a
fairly small portion’ while
the bulk of the spending was
used to bail out
multinational corporations
and banks and provide social
relief for the population.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">In
2020, the pandemic cost the
global gross domestic
product an estimated $4
trillion. Meanwhile,
according to the WHO, the
‘needed funding … to ensure
epidemic preparedness is
estimated to be
approximately US$150 billion
per year’. In other words,
an annual expenditure of
$150 billion could likely
prevent the next pandemic
along with its
multi-trillion-dollar
economic bill and
incalculable suffering. But
this kind of social
investment is simply not in
the cards these days. That’s
part of what makes our times
so upsetting.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
<div id="attachment_59414"
class="wp-caption
aligncenter"><img
aria-describedby="caption-attachment-59414"
loading="lazy"
class="wp-image-59414
size-full img-responsive
mcRssImage"
src="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/S.-H.-Raza-India-Monsoon-in-Bombay-1947-49..jpg"
alt="S. H. Raza (India),
Monsoon in Bombay,
1947–49."
srcset="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/S.-H.-Raza-India-Monsoon-in-Bombay-1947-49..jpg
950w,
https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/S.-H.-Raza-India-Monsoon-in-Bombay-1947-49.-300x225.jpg
300w,
https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/S.-H.-Raza-India-Monsoon-in-Bombay-1947-49.-768x576.jpg
768w" sizes="(max-width:
950px) 100vw, 950px"
style="max-width:
100%;width:
100%;padding-bottom:
0;display:
inline;vertical-align:
bottom;border: 0;height:
auto;outline:
none;text-decoration:
none;-ms-interpolation-mode:
bicubic;"
moz-do-not-send="true"
width="950" border="0">
<p
id="caption-attachment-59414"
class="wp-caption-text"
style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"><span
style="color: #ba2025;">S.
H. Raza (India), <i>Monsoon
in Bombay</i>,
1947–49.</span></p>
</div>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">On 5
May, the WHO released its <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=86292db49d&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">findings</a>
on the excess deaths caused
by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Over the 24-month period of
2020 and 2021, the WHO
estimated the pandemic’s
death toll to be 14.9
million. A third of these
deaths (4.7 million) are <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=344da0e4f1&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">said</a>
to have been in India; this
is ten times the official
figure released by the
Government of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, which has <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=eb903fb6cd&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">disputed</a>
the WHO’s figures. One would
have thought that these
staggering numbers – nearly
15 million dead globally in
the two-year period – would
be sufficient to strengthen
the will to rebuild depleted
public health systems. Not
so.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">According
to a <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=145519e5a9&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">study</a>
on global health financing,
development assistance for
health (DAH) increased by
35.7 percent between 2019
and 2020. This amounts to
$13.7 billion in DAH, far
short of the <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=6939838b02&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">projected</a>
$33 billion to $62 billion
required to address the
pandemic. In line with the
global pattern, while DAH
funding during the pandemic
went towards COVID-19
projects, various key health
sectors saw their funds <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=6a3624041f&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">decrease</a>
(malaria by 2.2 percent,
HIV/AIDS by 3.4 percent,
tuberculosis by 5.5 percent,
reproductive and maternal
health by 6.8 percent). The
expenditure on COVID-19 also
had some striking
geographical disparities,
with the Caribbean and Latin
America receiving only 5.2
percent of DAH funding
despite experiencing 28.7
percent of reported global
COVID-19 deaths.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
<div id="attachment_59424"
class="wp-caption
aligncenter"><img
aria-describedby="caption-attachment-59424"
loading="lazy"
class="wp-image-59424
size-full img-responsive
mcRssImage"
src="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Sajitha-Shankar-India-Alterbody-2008..jpg"
alt="Sajitha R. Shankar
(India), Alterbody, 2008."
srcset="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Sajitha-Shankar-India-Alterbody-2008..jpg
950w,
https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Sajitha-Shankar-India-Alterbody-2008.-300x297.jpg
300w,
https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Sajitha-Shankar-India-Alterbody-2008.-768x760.jpg
768w" sizes="(max-width:
950px) 100vw, 950px"
style="max-width:
100%;width:
100%;padding-bottom:
0;display:
inline;vertical-align:
bottom;border: 0;height:
auto;outline:
none;text-decoration:
none;-ms-interpolation-mode:
bicubic;"
moz-do-not-send="true"
width="950" border="0">
<p
id="caption-attachment-59424"
class="wp-caption-text"
style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"><span
style="color: #ba2025;">Sajitha
R. Shankar (India), <i>Alterbody</i>,
2008.</span></p>
</div>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">While
the Indian government is
preoccupied with disputing
the COVID-19 death toll with
the WHO, the government of
Kerala – led by the Left
Democratic Front – has
focused on using any and
every means to enhance the
public health sector.
Kerala, with a population of
almost 35 million, regularly
leads in the country’s
health <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=3eb4455f4c&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">indicators</a>
among India’s twenty-eight
states. Kerala’s Left
Democratic Front government
has been able to handle the
pandemic because of its
robust public investment in
health care facilities, the
public action led by vibrant
social movements that are
connected to the government,
and its policies of social
inclusion that have
minimised the hierarchies of
caste and patriarchy that
otherwise isolate social
minorities from public
institutions.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">In
2016, when the Left
Democratic Front took over
state leadership, it began
to enhance the depleted
public health system. <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=fc00e4b21e&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Mission
Aardram</a>
(‘Compassion’), started in
2017, was intended to
improve public health care,
including emergency
departments and trauma
units, and draw more people
away from the expensive
private health sector to
public systems. The
government rooted Mission
Aardram in the <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=aedd18c2ad&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">structures</a>
of local self-government so
that the entire health care
system could be
decentralised and more
closely attuned to the needs
of communities. For example,
the mission developed a
close relationship with the
various cooperatives, such
as <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=53653ad96c&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Kudumbashree</a>,
a 4.5-million-member women’s
anti-poverty programme. Due
to the revitalised public
health care system, Kerala’s
population has begun to turn
away from the private sector
in favour of these
government facilities, whose
use <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=40100ca216&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">increased</a>
from 28 percent in the 1980s
to 70 percent in 2021 as a
result.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">As
part of Mission Aardram, the
Left Democratic Front
government in Kerala created
Family Health Centres across
the state. The government
has now established <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=7993fe292a&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Post-COVID
Clinics</a> at these
centres to diagnose and
treat people who are
suffering from long-term
COVID-19-related health
problems. These clinics have
been created despite little
support from the central
government in New Delhi. A
number of Kerala’s public
health and research
institutes have <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=bae00a743a&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">provided</a>
breakthroughs in our
understanding of
communicable diseases and
helped develop new medicines
to treat them, including the
Institute for Advanced
Virology, the International
Ayurveda Research Institute,
and the research centres in
biotechnology and
pharmaceutical medicines at
the <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=77ebd39f63&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Bio360</a>
Life Sciences Park. All of
this is precisely the agenda
of compassion that gives us
hope in the possibilities of
a world that is not rooted
in private profit but in
social good.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
<div id="attachment_59434"
class="wp-caption
aligncenter"><img
aria-describedby="caption-attachment-59434"
loading="lazy"
class="wp-image-59434
size-full img-responsive
mcRssImage"
src="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Nguyen-tu-Nghiem-Vietnam-The-Dance-1968..jpg"
alt="Nguyễn tư Nghiêm
(Vietnam), The Dance,
1968."
srcset="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Nguyen-tu-Nghiem-Vietnam-The-Dance-1968..jpg
950w,
https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Nguyen-tu-Nghiem-Vietnam-The-Dance-1968.-300x148.jpg
300w,
https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Nguyen-tu-Nghiem-Vietnam-The-Dance-1968.-768x379.jpg
768w" sizes="(max-width:
950px) 100vw, 950px"
style="max-width:
100%;width:
100%;padding-bottom:
0;display:
inline;vertical-align:
bottom;border: 0;height:
auto;outline:
none;text-decoration:
none;-ms-interpolation-mode:
bicubic;"
moz-do-not-send="true"
width="950" border="0">
<p
id="caption-attachment-59434"
class="wp-caption-text"
style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"><span
style="color: #ba2025;">Nguyễn
tư Nghiêm (Vietnam), <i>The
Dance</i>, 1968.</span></p>
</div>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">In
November 2021,
Tricontinental: Institute
for Social Research worked
alongside twenty-six
research institutes to
develop <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=f42fddc076&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true"><i>A
Plan to Save the Planet</i></a>.
The plan has many sections,
each of which emerged out of
deep study and analysis. One
of the key sections is on
health, with thirteen clear
policy proposals:</p>
<p style="padding-left:
40px;margin: 10px 0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">1.
Advance the cause of a
people’s vaccine for
COVID-19 and for future
diseases.<br>
2. Remove patent controls on
essential medicines and
facilitate the transfer of
both medical science and
technology to developing
countries.<br>
3. De-commodify, develop,
and increase investment in
robust public health
systems.<br>
4. Develop the public
sector’s pharmaceutical
production, particularly in
developing countries.<br>
5. Form a United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on
Health Threats.<br>
6. Support and strengthen
the role health workers’
unions play at the workplace
and in the economy.<br>
7. Ensure that people from
underprivileged backgrounds
and rural areas are trained
as doctors.<br>
8. Broaden medical
solidarity, including
through the World Health
Organisation and health
platforms associated with
regional bodies.<br>
9. Mobilise campaigns and
actions that protect and
expand reproductive and
sexual rights.<br>
10. Levy a health tax on
large corporations that
produce beverages and foods
that are widely recognised
by international health
organisations to be harmful
to children and to public
health in general (such as
those that lead to obesity
or other chronic diseases).<br>
11. Curb the promotional
activities and advertising
expenditures of
pharmaceutical corporations.<br>
12. Build a network of
accessible, publicly funded
diagnostic centres and
strictly regulate the
prescription and prices of
diagnostic tests.<br>
13. Provide psychological
therapy as part of public
health systems.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">If
even half of these policy
proposals were to be
enacted, the world would be
less dangerous and more
compassionate. Take point
no. 6 as a reference. During
the early months of the
pandemic, it became normal
to talk about the need to
support ‘essential workers’,
including health care
workers (our dossier from
June 2020, Health Is a
Political Choice, made the
case for these workers). All
those banged pots went
silent soon thereafter and
health care workers found
themselves with low pay and
poor working conditions.
When these health care
workers went on strike –
from the United States to
Kenya – that support simply
did not materialise. If
health care workers had a
say in their own workplaces
and in the formation of
health policy, our societies
would be less prone to
repeated healthcare
calamities.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"><img
loading="lazy"
class="aligncenter
wp-image-59448 size-full
img-responsive mcRssImage"
src="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220511_Roque-Dalton_IG.jpg"
alt=""
srcset="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220511_Roque-Dalton_IG.jpg
950w,
https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220511_Roque-Dalton_IG-300x300.jpg
300w,
https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220511_Roque-Dalton_IG-150x150.jpg
150w,
https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/20220511_Roque-Dalton_IG-768x768.jpg
768w" sizes="(max-width:
950px) 100vw, 950px"
style="max-width:
100%;width:
100%;padding-bottom:
0;display:
inline;vertical-align:
bottom;border: 0;height:
auto;outline:
none;text-decoration:
none;-ms-interpolation-mode:
bicubic;"
moz-do-not-send="true"
width="950" border="0"></p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">There’s
an old Roque Dalton poem
from 1968 about headaches
and socialism that gives us
a taste of what it will take
to save the planet:</p>
<p style="padding-left:
40px;margin: 10px 0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">It
is beautiful to be a
communist,<br>
even if it gives you many
headaches.</p>
<p style="padding-left:
40px;margin: 10px 0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">The
communists’ headache<br>
is presumed to be
historical; that is to say,<br>
that it does not yield to
painkillers,<br>
but only to the realisation
of paradise on earth.<br>
That’s the way it is.</p>
<p style="padding-left:
40px;margin: 10px 0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">Under
capitalism, we get a
headache<br>
and our heads are torn off.<br>
In the revolution’s
struggle, the head is a
time-bomb.</p>
<p style="padding-left:
40px;margin: 10px 0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">In
socialist construction,<br>
we plan for the headache<br>
which does not make it
scarce, but quite the
contrary.<br>
Communism will be, among
other things,<br>
an aspirin the size of the
sun.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">Warmly,</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">Vijay</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
</span> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<!--[if mso]>
</td>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if mso]>
</tr>
</table>
<![endif]--> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td id="templateFooter" style="background: #FAFAFA
none no-repeat
center/cover;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;background-color: #FAFAFA;background-image:
none;background-repeat:
no-repeat;background-position:
center;background-size: cover;border-top:
0;border-bottom: 0;padding-top:
9px;padding-bottom: 9px;" valign="top">
<table class="mcnFollowBlock" style="min-width:
100%;border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace:
0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
border="0">
<tbody class="mcnFollowBlockOuter">
<tr>
<td style="padding:
9px;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
class="mcnFollowBlockInner" valign="top"
align="center">
<table class="mcnFollowContentContainer"
style="min-width:
100%;border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace:
0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
width="100%" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="padding-left:
9px;padding-right:
9px;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;" align="center">
<table style="min-width:
100%;border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace:
0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;"
class="mcnFollowContent"
width="100%" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="padding-top:
9px;padding-right:
9px;padding-left:
9px;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
valign="top"
align="center">
<table
style="border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
border="0"
align="center">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td
style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
valign="top"
align="center">
<!--[if mso]>
<table align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if mso]>
<td align="center" valign="top">
<![endif]-->
<table
style="display:
inline;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td
style="padding-right:
10px;padding-bottom: 9px;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
class="mcnFollowContentItemContainer"
valign="top">
<table
class="mcnFollowContentItem"
style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
width="100%"
cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td
style="padding-top:
5px;padding-right: 10px;padding-bottom: 5px;padding-left:
9px;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
valign="middle"
align="left">
<table
style="border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0"
border="0"
align="left">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td
class="mcnFollowIconContent"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;"
width="24"
valign="middle"
align="center">
<a
href="www.eltricontinental.org"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/dark-link-48.png"
alt="Website"
style="display: block;border: 0;height: auto;outline:
none;text-decoration:
none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;" class="" moz-do-not-send="true"
width="24"
height="24"></a>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<!--[if mso]>
</td>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if mso]>
<td align="center" valign="top">
<![endif]-->
<table
style="display:
inline;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td
style="padding-right:
10px;padding-bottom: 9px;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
class="mcnFollowContentItemContainer"
valign="top">
<table
class="mcnFollowContentItem"
style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
width="100%"
cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td
style="padding-top:
5px;padding-right: 10px;padding-bottom: 5px;padding-left:
9px;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
valign="middle"
align="left">
<table
style="border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0"
border="0"
align="left">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td
class="mcnFollowIconContent"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;"
width="24"
valign="middle"
align="center">
<a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=65cc3e1bcb&e=d206d0a40d"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/dark-facebook-48.png"
alt="Facebook"
style="display: block;border: 0;height: auto;outline:
none;text-decoration:
none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;" class="" moz-do-not-send="true"
width="24"
height="24"></a>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<!--[if mso]>
</td>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if mso]>
<td align="center" valign="top">
<![endif]-->
<table
style="display:
inline;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td
style="padding-right:
10px;padding-bottom: 9px;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
class="mcnFollowContentItemContainer"
valign="top">
<table
class="mcnFollowContentItem"
style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
width="100%"
cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td
style="padding-top:
5px;padding-right: 10px;padding-bottom: 5px;padding-left:
9px;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
valign="middle"
align="left">
<table
style="border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0"
border="0"
align="left">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td
class="mcnFollowIconContent"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;"
width="24"
valign="middle"
align="center">
<a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=5bdbef6703&e=d206d0a40d"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/dark-twitter-48.png"
alt="Twitter"
style="display: block;border: 0;height: auto;outline:
none;text-decoration:
none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;" class="" moz-do-not-send="true"
width="24"
height="24"></a>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<!--[if mso]>
</td>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if mso]>
<td align="center" valign="top">
<![endif]-->
<table
style="display:
inline;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td
style="padding-right:
0;padding-bottom: 9px;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
class="mcnFollowContentItemContainer"
valign="top">
<table
class="mcnFollowContentItem"
style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
width="100%"
cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td
style="padding-top:
5px;padding-right: 10px;padding-bottom: 5px;padding-left:
9px;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
valign="middle"
align="left">
<table
style="border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="" cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0"
border="0"
align="left">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td
class="mcnFollowIconContent"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;"
width="24"
valign="middle"
align="center">
<a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=48c194a913&e=d206d0a40d"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/dark-instagram-48.png"
alt="Instagram" style="display: block;border: 0;height: auto;outline:
none;text-decoration:
none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;" class="" moz-do-not-send="true"
width="24"
height="24"></a>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<!--[if mso]>
</td>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if mso]>
</tr>
</table>
<![endif]--> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<![endif]-->
<!-- // END TEMPLATE --> </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</center>
<center> <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<table id="canspamBarWrapper" style="background-color:
#FFFFFF;border-top: 1px solid #E5E5E5;border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="padding-top: 20px;padding-bottom:
20px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"
align="center"><br>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</center>
</div>
</body>
</html>